Luisa Narducci O'Gara,Youth School Program Director and instructor of beginner/intermediate A: 3-6; bilingual/advanced A: 3-6.Mother of two young bilingual children was born and raised in Puglia. The youngest of three, her mother was an elementary school teacher and her father was a farmer. Her mother’s love for teaching inspired her to pursue a degree in Education from the University of Firenze. She moved to Minnesota in 2002 and worked as a preschool teacher for St. David’s Center for Child & Family Development. Luisa loves to share her passion for cooking and making homemade pasta - just the way her nonnataught her.

Sabrina Infante, Instructor of Beginner/Intermediate B 7-11; Bilingual/Advanced B 7-11recently relocated to Minnesota in 2017 with her husband Paolo, and son Luca, who spends Saturday mornings at the ICC bilingual youth classes. While Sabrina’s heart is still in Florence, where she lived for many years, she manages to return almost every summer to see friends and extended family. Sabrina loves sharing her passion for the Italian language and culture with others, and has spent the past 20+ years working with students of all ages. In Italy, Sabrina student taught at the Preschool “Irene” in Pistoia, where she studied the Reggio-Emilia approach to early childhood education, then at the Fortini Preschool in Florence. Since moving to Boston in 2007, Sabrina taught Italian at North Quincy High School, where she created and ran an exchange program with a partner school in Arezzo, Tuscany. Sabrina also holds a doctorate in Italian Literature, and has taught University and Adult Community and Continuing Education for several years, and currently teaches both privately at home and online.

Ileana Tamberlani Kraft, Instructor of Beginner/Intermediate C 11-17; Bilingual/Advanced C 11-17. Ileana grew up in a town by the coastline 30 miles south of Rome; after living in Belgium for 4 years and traveling around Europe with her family she meet her husband and moved to the twin cities in 2010. She's been teaching Italian online to students from all over the world since 2011, and also does interpreting and translating jobs. She loves cooking big Italian meals for her American family and friends, watching foreign movies, being out in the sun and going for walks. She has a little daughter that she's raising bilingual and has so much fun with her. She loves everything about Italy and she always wants to incorporate the culture and the language in her daily life.

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